The Galveston Daily News. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 139, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 1, 1877 Page: 4 of 6
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largest Surplus of any Company in America.
INSURANCE GO. OF
OIF
NORTH AMERICA
-.-crr.-p-ETTA
- $7,000,000.
ibtTThr p COFFIN Pres't CHVS. PLATT, Vice Pres t. W, S. DAVIS, 2d Vice Pres t.
G-C0FR ■ MATTHIAS MARIS, Sec *. C. E. FRYER, Ass t. Sec y.
; . mabihs losses aic made payable [\>y certificates at bankers^n london,
^Antwerp Bremen or Hamburg.
P""' Stton butbrs austid shippers
,, . ... „ the Galveston asency for rates and terms before effecting Marine insurance elsewhere.
Will do well by better classes of property JSo insured against loss or damage by FIRE on LUBftAIi
Cotton in preset"! ^ ^ losses promptly and equitably settled at the agency where the insurance is effected.
Cotton
tsicms
78
strand
Parts of the State.
I
i rXLOrZLZETOR
STEXAS BAT KABDFACTDBIBG E0.1
129 Tvemont St. 129
CD
The Only Specialty, and Consequently Cheapest
HAT HOUSE IJV THE STATE.
Soft, Stiff, and Silk Hats in the Latest Styles, en Hand, and
MADE TO ORDER.
BYRNES
ASPHALT ROOFING TRIUMPHANT!
IN TftE LAST ANNUAL STATEMENT OF TllE NEWS NOTICE WAS TAKEN OF
A New Enterprise
JUST INTRODUCED IN THIS CITY. THE RESULT OF THIS ENTERPRISE SHOWS
of the Roofing there referred to now protecting property in this city and vicinity against the elements. The causes or
its popularity are
Chcapne»», Durability and it* superior Wind, Water and Fire-proof Qualities
It has another advantage In this climate not generally known, which is its property of Reflecting instead of absorb
ing heat, making it the coolest roof in use.
P. 0. Box 408. «T- W • HYR.KTES. Offlee: Sews Building,
\
— " rTTT
VLFF, WEIS * CO
MANUFACTURERS AND JOBBERS OF
CLOTHING,
II
AND DE1LERS IN
ttKNTS' FURNISHING GOODS,
103 & 106 STBAHD, Cor.TSBMOHT ST.
Condensed Balance^hkbt—Continued
*JO
c« of Texas
COMMERCIAL PRINTER,
60 Treuiont Street, Galveston.
iVOXE BETTER! NONE CHEAPER!
KOBINSON & CO.,
Wholesale and Retail
Booksellers, Stationers
AND
Mercantile Printers,,
Cotton Sampling & Manilla Papers, Cotton Harking Ink, etc.
73 Strand, Galveston.
The Largest and best stock of 8chool Books and merchants Stationery
In lh» C|»y.
M. W. SHAW.
(Established 1815)
F. D. SHAW.
M.W. SHAW & BRO
PRACTICAL WAltHMIKERS ANDMAN-
UFACTURINti JEWELER!*.
SHIP CHRONOMETERS CAREFULLY RATED BY TRANSIT.
CHAS. M. WATERS.
€. 1*1. DESEL.
CHAS. M. WATERS & CO.,
GRAIN AND PRODUCE,
ISTO. 8 STRAND, GALVESTON,
Correspondence Solicited.
Xlstabllslicd. in 1840.
E.S. Wood & Son,
HARDWARE MERCHANTS
123 Strand, Galveston, Tesas
0.jf«idt8 keeping on hand a large assortment of every d®®?riP^°? 2*$Saw?
th« fte» *">reign and domestic, we are agents for Henry Dissj Cook-
ttX & »lpeer Plows. Fairbanks Scales, the Charter Oakf \he ByC* °00*
ing oto ^ tae New York Beltillg and Packing Company, f> eic*
faction botl?patronage of our friends, and of the trade genef^r c h aTi ng elsewhere
We buy at heeS.0"31*0® and £°0<ls- , us a £!ii Mh/8*DJr,1<)U8®in estate.
3 PW»Hnerg. pay cash for our goods, andean sell as
Houston and Texas Central.
Miles.
Line of road Houston to Denison 343
Branches—Hempstead to Austin lio
Bremond to Waco 47"~ lt<4
Total length of all lines owned •
and operated by the Com-
503
Sidings and other tracks, 35 miles; gauge, 4
feet 8^ Inches; rail lbs.
Since last report, this line has changed its
gauge from Hempstead to Austin, 115 miles,
giving it 505 mi'es—or its entire line—a uni
form gauge of 4 feet 8V6 inches, the national
standard. It i3 the only railway with direct
connections outside of the State, and to all
parts of the United States and Canada, with-
out break of gau*e. For the purpose of open-
ing up one of the most important channels for
trade with the North, and for further devel-
oping the trade and resources of our own State,
on June 1, 1877, this line, in connection with
the Missouri, Kansas and Texas and Chica-
go, Burlington and Qninny Railwa>s com-
menced running a fast freight line, known a*
the 41 Chicago and Texas Quick Transit " line,
between Houston and Chicago; the time con-
sumed in transit being but 110 hours; also, a
complete outfit of Pullman's palace sleeping
cars, daily without change, between the same
points The success which has already
1 crowned the undertaking has been most grat-
: if jing, to and entirely heyond the expecta-
tions of the projectors, and has made very ap
\ parent the importance which the patrons of
the line attach to it. In addition to the fast
freight line to and from Chicago, there was
. established at the same time one between
I Houston and St. Louis; the time between
. the two cities being but ninety six hours. The
' outfit of comfortable and elegant Pullman
sl^epins? cars, which has long been a feature
of the route between Houston and St. Louis,
has been and will be continued as usual.
FREIGHT STATISTICS FOR TEAR ENDING APRIL
30. 1877.
298 788 bales cotton. 3237^ tons bides, 4.30 3-5
tons wood, 9997 head sheep. 7036 head hogs,
29 793 head other animals. 28,095,000 shingles,
35'452 0.>0 feet lumber. 29,829 tons coal, 87 tons
stone. 16 tons ore, 152,875 bbls. flour (100,000
bbl8. of this flour was produced by mills on
the line of the Houston and Texas Central
Railway), 2>5,019 bushels corn. 413,293 bushels
whfeat, 420,407 bushels oats. 53,842 bushels bar-
ley, 6465 tons bacon. 139,959>6 tons assorted
merchandise, 394,597 tons total, 41,566.Wo tons
carried one mile.
car mileage for year ending ap*il -ju. icu.
Freignt cars, 11,759,392 mile#; passenger
cars. 2.505,654 miles.
passenger statistics for year ending april
30, 1877.
212,126 local passengerf, 45,^ through pas-
sengers Increase over yea" ending April 30,
1876, 1983 passengers.
Sketch of o^jnties
Through which the H^ton ana Texas Cen-
tral Railway passes.*8 we", those tribu-
tary to it. Increa*3 population, products,
etc., for the yea' ending April 30, 187<.
vHN80N COUNTY.
Increase iu/°Pulation, 10 per cent.; increase
in cotton v Per ceat; decrease In wheat, 2>$
n«r c**~l' oatp' none raised on account of
crre->aoppers; increase in corn, 10 per cent.
frowa apples and peaches in profusion. Has
ySme tame grasses which grow well. County
^ebt light. Schools and churches in propor
tion to p pulation. General prospects of the
c unty very bright. Farming community in
JOS. LAB/DIB,
wholesale and retail. d11eb ,n
EMLI8H, CiERJUAV AX7A ^ERICAS
HARDWARE, JllTLERY,
TV00DENWABE, TINWA^ WILLOW-WABE,
HOUSE FURNI8»^g GOODS,
Ship Chandler's Stock, pj^ts & Oils, Window Glass
COOKISiG STOVES, KI 'BGR A SPORT«« GOODS,
Ol Market Street, - - . GALVESTON, TEXAS-
A. C. CRAWFORD.
LYTLE CRAWFORD.
A. C. CRAWFORD & SONS.
g:
importers OP
China & Glassware
isro. 75 BTiiA.isrr>,
GALVESTON, - - - TEXAS.
Assortedcrates of Crockery aHvays on hand. Goods carefully packed.
c. j. ranlett & co.7
IMPORTEES .
wh0lesae DEALERS IN
MANILA
COTTC
>3
SAL CORDAGE,
,N El TO.
AGEN'l
TA-TH^M A BEO.'S
PATENT FINISH DROP An BUCK SHOT,
Bar Lead, Sheet Lead an x^cad Pipe.
_ e atx^iici,
J. M. O. MENJVRD,
.FIRE AND MARINE
RELIABLE INDEMNITY.
106 Strand,
Sewing Machines, Pianos and Organs!
guieatly reduced prices
Mannfaetnrer's Agency for the Sale of
WHEELER & WILS'»N, HOWE, REMINGTON, FLOR-
ENCE AND HOME SHUTTLE SEWING MACHINES.
Xeedles and Parts for all dewing Mat^ncs."
Horace Waters & Sous Celebrated Centeniiial Chime Organs..
,UB™'<orclH™'te WAGNER, AND WATERS TIANOS.
H Axil I i;ro\ BUGGE, \ gent,
o. l .,l l'owtnftice Mrcet, Oalve^ton, Texas.
D. E. SCHOGI FIELD,
druggist,
OPEKA HOUSE BUILIDHsTQ.
ti.IU,FdaNyZ,d^gM.ILET ARTIt'LEti to great varie,-v- (-'anful attention given to pr,«crip.
C. H. MOORE & CO.,
IMPORTERS AND DEALERS IN
Doors, Windows, Blinds,
White Pine Mouldings, Stair Work, Etc
MARKET ST., bet. 27th & 28th.
W. F. STEWART.
C. If. ItlOOKF..
II V. BEIS8AER.
W. F. STEWART & CO.,
DEALERS IN
Lumber, Shingles,
LATHS, SASH, BOORS, BLI1TDSV2TC.
SUls SAWBB TO ORDER at Short Notice anr**°west Rates
OFFICE COR. 29T1I AND ME( HAN^ STS.,
oalvss rrotexas.
WA LYESTON, TFXAS
ASH CAPITAL,
J.®. I.ACT6, jec»t*rr,
ft. A*r*(sfdoxjt.
Vfce Preset.
nC»7 7flly
high spiiits. Goods selling in Cleburne as low
as at Dallas and Fort Worth. Pay $12 to $15
per month for farm labor. Steady employ-
ment can be had from September 1st to Janu-
ary 1st, 1878, at good paying prices. Price for
picking cotton between those dates $1 per 100.
Reference, D. R. Carmichael, Cleburne.
shackelford county.
Increase in population, 50 per cent. Acre
age of wheat, double; increase per acre, 25
per cent.; increase ol oats, double; increase
per acre, 30 per cent.; increase In corn, 50
per cent.; increase in corn per acre, 5 per
cent.: increase in barley, double. Fruits of
all kinds do well, particularly peaches and
plums. Tama grasses grow well, principally
Hungarian and millet. This county being yet
new, its soil, as t o productiveness, has not been
thoroughly tested; but we do not think it im-
proper to say, like other ana older counties lo-
cated east, it will produce everything grown
North or South. The county has no debt, and
is rapialy increasing in population of an intel
ligent class, which will in the early future
build up the necessary schools and churches.
This county constitutes one portion of the
grazing district of Texas. Reference, J. M.
Bogart, Fort Griffin.
lee county.
Increase in population, 10 per cent. In-
crease in cotton, 10 per cent ; increase in
wheat, 45 per cent.; increase in corn, 40 per
cent.; increase in oats, 40 per cent. Grows
peaches, pears and plums. Financial condi-
i ion good. Has thirty-three free schools and
thirty private schools. Reference, Jtt. M. King,
County Judge, Giddings.
erath county.
Increase in population, 50 per cent. In-
crease in cotton, 33 per cent.; increase in
wheat 20 per cent ; increase in oats, 10 per
cent.; increase in corn. 33 per cent. Will pro-
duce all kinds of fruit, particularly peacnes,
as well as plums, grapes, blackberries, etc.
Financial condition good. Population about
15,000; school* and churches in proportion.
Reference, M. S. rmw, stephensville.
brown county.
Increase in \ o^ul if ion, 100 per cent.: little
cotton produced hera. The soil is well adapt
edtoit. This is a new county. Increase in
wheat. 100 percent.; in oats, 100 per cent,; in
corn, 100 ner cent. Is a fine fruit-producing
district Tame grasses, particularly Hungarian
and Millet, grow well. Schools numerous and
wall attended. Churches in proportion to
population. Financial condition good. Refer-
ence, W. C. Parker, Brownwood.
navarro coun1y,
Increase in population, 10 per cent.; increase
in cotton, 25 per cent. This county will pro-
duce 20,000 bales, most of which will be
shipped from Corsicana. Decrease in wheat;
Wsssi.Tunre, 3B
percent. Pea-hes and apples in abundance,
as well as pears and sroa 1 fruits. Tame
grasses, say Hungarian and Alfafa, grow
well. Grazing upon wild grass very good.
chools and churches conveniently located
ail over the county Corsicana, the county
seat, is a growing town of say 4C0J inhabi-
tants, with an intelligent population and all
the elements of refinement. Reference, S. J.
T. JohnsoD, Corsicana.
waller county.
Increase in population. 5 p&r cent. Increase
in cotton, 33 per cent. No wheat in this coul-
ty, and only sufficient oats for home consump-
tion. Increase in corn, 6 per cent. No barley
or rye raised. Peaches, pears and figs do
well. This is a new county. Hempstead, a
town of about 2500 inhabitants, is the county
seat. Financial condition of the county good,
with an abundance of schools and churches.
Reference, Hiram Waller. Hempstead.
grimes county.
Increase in population, 10 per cent. In-
crease in cotton, 7 per cent.; number of bales
produced in this county this year will be 24,-
000; increase in wheat, 33 per cent. ; increase
in oats, 30 per cent.; in corn, 25 per cent. No
barley nor rye was planted save for stock
use. Grows all kinds of fruit. Tame grasses
grow well. Financial condition very good;
cash in the treasury; no debts. Schools and
churches conveniently located in every neigh
borhood. Navasota, the principal point, is a
thrivine place of 3000 inhabitants, and will
ship 16,000 to 17,000 bales of c jtton, principally
to Galveston. 1 he following villages in the
county ship and receive through Navasota,
Iola, 27 miles distant: Bedias, 33 miles dis-
tant; Prairie Plains, 23 miles distant; Ander-
son, the county seat, 10 miles distant; Plant-
eraville, 15 miles distant; Whitehall, 9 miles
cistant; Wallace Prairie, 7 miles distant; Re-
treat, 13 miles distant. Population of county
21,000. Lands worth: unimproved, $250 to $5
per acre; improved, $4 to $6 per acre. Refer-
ence, H. D. Patrick. Navasota.
freestone county.
Increase in population 10 per cent. Increase
in cotton 5 per cent. Increase in wheat 10 per
ceut. Increase in oats 20 per cent. Increase
in corn 10 per cent. Barley and rye very little
raised Peaches, apples, pears and grapes
grow well. No tame grasses grown in t»-is
county. Wild grasses, however, grow well,
and are used for grazing and hay. Financial
condition of the county good. Sciicols and
churches in abundance. Alexia, the shipping
point for this county, but located in Lime-
stone county, has a population of about 2000.
and is growing rapidly, and will ship this year
15,000 to 20,000 bales of cotton. Reference, C.
IL. Watson, Fairfield.
rockwell county.
Increase in populat;on 50 per cent. Increase
jn cotton 50 per cent. Wheat about the same.
"Increase in oats 33 per cent. Increase in corn
2 per cent. No barley nor rye raised. Grows
S^abundance of peacnes, plums and cherries.
dowbgra8sep' Hungarian, millet and alfa a
ST- P ^lmpM8rTndd
t_ . batrup county.
in S^er cent- Increase
in cotton 6 per cent. Increase in wheat 35
per cent. Increase m ^ts 4IJ per cent. slight
decrease in corn. No Wrley nor rye raistd.
Fruit principally peaches. No tameJ gras8es.
Bastrop, the princ.pal to.-n in this county,
with manufactories, schools hod churches ac-
cording to population. McDaie the shliping
point. Reference, Higgina & Urwood Ba£
trop.
hood county.
Increase in population 25 per cent Increase
in cotton 20 per cent. Slight Urease in
wheat. Increase in oats 50 per cent Corn 10
per cent. Little barley and rye raised
Peaches and grapes do well. Hungarian mil-
let and Bermuda grasses produceo in consid-
erable quantities. Financial condition of the
county good. Churches and schools accord-
ing to population, which is small of course it
oranaDury,'WOTBteui,,r?inference. Assessor.
palo pinto county.
Increase in population 100 per cent. In-
crease in cotton 10 per cent. Slight decrease
in wheat. Slight decrease in oats. Increase
in corn )0T0 per cent. But little barley and
rye raised. Peaches do well. No tame grasses
produced. Large number of schools in the
county, nearly all of which are public free
schools. Financial condition fair. County
seat, Palo Pinto. Population of county about
5500 Large numbers of cattle are raised here
—say 30,000, valuation ($150,000) one hundred
and fifty thousand dollars Valuation of land
in the county ($ .96,000) three hundred and
ninety-eix thousand dollars. Reference, J.
0. McQuerry, Assessor, Palo Pinto.
grayson county.
Increase in population, 20 per cent. la-
crease in cotton, 43 per cent.; increase in
wheat. 10 per cent : increase in oats, 20 per
cent ; ii crease in corn, 20 per cent.; increase
in barley, 10 per cent ; increase In rye. 10 p«r
cent. Fruits of all kinds do well, particularly
peaches, apples and grapes. Millet and Hun
garian grasses are raised all over the county;
no other tame grasses have been tried. Fidu-
cial condition of county very good. Fo&cols
and churches conveniently located, ar^1 some
f).-ivate schools of very high oc6°f- onerman
s the county seat and priJZ''PaI town ,n the
county. Population abu'-* and growing
rapidly. Denison, the junction of the Hous-
ton and Texas CentW and Missouri, Kansas
and Texas Railway, is also in this county
luference. W. H. Frolinger, Whitesboro,
dj,las county.
Increase in population, 20 per cent. Increase
in cotton. 30 r^r cen^*» wheat about the same
aa last year ® acreage, increase per acre
5 per ctnt mcrea?e in oats. 100percent : iQ.
crease in-orD' ^ per cent.; increase in bar-
ley, 45 tfer cent ' no 'J© raised. Peaches
grow veil; good crops raised this year. Very
little 01 her kinds of fruits raised in this
cou^y Millet. Hungarian and alfafa grasses
40«rell. Financial condition cf county fair
p:hools and churches in convenient position
over entire county. Dallas, the county seat
and the most prominent town In the county'
has a population of between 17,000 and 20 000*
is rapidly growing, and may be considered the
most prominent interior town in the State of
Texas. Reference. R. V. Tompkins. Dallas
brazos county.
Increase in population 10 percent ; increase
in cotton, 5 per cent. No wheat raised. In-
crease in oats, 50 per cent. 4'ecr^ase in corn
No ha- ley nor rye rai-ed. Fine peach crop
»nd berry crop, »h ch are 'he chief fruits of
the county. Hangariau and mi let grass are
grown for hay, £5- -muda and Orchard for
grazing. A small debt r»sts upon this connty
by reason of racent improvements, bur js
rapidly paid off. The end of pr» s^nt
J*FF»r will show a balance in the treasury. Fa
eilities for education in this county particu-
larly gooo. Aside from many public sch< o!s,
some of them of very high oider, it has, loca-
ted near Bryan, the county seat, ti e State
Agricultural and Mechanical College, which
i8 preside-1 over by an able facul y and has a
large number of student from all parts of tl e
State Population fBrjan is b'-tween 5000
and 600*'i Its people intelligent and society
first-class. Bryan is the principal shipping
Eoint for the county, and its merchants will
andle this year 15,000 to 20,000 bales of cot-
ton, sorae of which will go to Ne» York and
New England, but the principal part to Gal-
veston and New Orleans. Reference, Harvey
Mitchell, Bryan.
k'lennan county.
Increase In population. 10 pier cent. In-
crease In cotton, 10 per cent. Slight decrease
in wheat. Slight increase in oats. Increase
in corn, 10 per cent. Barley and rye about
the same Peaches do well In this county—
fine crop this year. Plums and grapes grow
" nave
op
in small quantities
been made with tame grasses, but none have
Some experiments \
succeeded, except Hungarian and millett.
Financial condition first, class. F'ee schools
all over the county. The city of Waco—the
most prominent in the county and county
seat—Is located on the Brazos river, which
s'ream is spa"ned by a magnificent suspen-
sion bridge. This city has many institutions
of learning--first-class in their management,
with students from all parts of the State, both
male and female. Society is excellent. Waco
is the point of concentration for a vast terri-
tory lying west, northwest and southwest of
it, including the counties of Hill, Bosque,
Hood. Erath. .Comanche, Hamilton, Coryell,
and Bell, immediately tributary, together
with all the district lying west of those coun-
ties. It may hi regarded the heaviest receiv-
ing and shipping point on the H. & T. C. R. R.,
and is better adapted as a point from which
to start in search of homes in the wide west
than any other in the State of Texas. Any-
where within 150 miles of its limits can be
found lands well watered and timbered, and
capable of producing everything grown either
North or South. Population of Waco between
8000 and 10,000. Reference, Jno. T. Flint,
Waco.
FANNIN COUNTY.
Increase in population 15 per cent. Increase
in cotton 45 per cent. Increase in wheat 60
percent: number of bushels produced in the
county (603,0C0) six hundred thousand. In-
crease in oats S! per cent; number of bushels
produced in the « ounty (480,000) four hundred
and eighty thousand. Inorease in corn 40 per
cent.; number of bushels produced in the
county (800,000) eight hundred thousand. In
crease in barley 50 per cent. Rye—none
raised. Good crop of peaches. Half crop of
apples. Pears good. Generally speaking,
fine fruit country. No experim ents made yet
in tame grasses. Wild grass has so far met
all demands for hay. Financial condition of
the county good Schools end churches in
proportion to jiopulation, and conveniently
located. Bonham the county seat, situated
on the Texas and Pacific Railway, twenty-
eight miles east of Sherman, has about 3000
population, and is refined and intelligent soci-
ety. This county will produce and ship about
15,000 bales of cotton, divided between St.
Louis, Galveston and New Orleans. Refer
ence, N. E. Lainhart, Deputy Tax Collector,
Bonham.
We had hoped in this connection to have
given a description of other counties not here
mentioned on the line of the H. and T. C.
Railway, as well as those tributary to It, but
the information sought did not reach us in
time for this issue. We however give a cas-
ual mention of these counties, in so far as we
are possessed of a knowledge of them. First
is Collin, lying immediately north of
Dallas, said to be as fine an agricul-
tural county as there is in the State,
produces all kinds of grain, cotton and various
fruits. Land is fairly timbered and watered.
McKinnejr, a town of 3000 inhabitants, is tne
county seat, and from it is shipped annually
from 10,000 to 15.C03 hales of cotton The
coming season will probably exceed that.
Piano, another town of importance in this
county, located 14 miles south of McKinney,
will ship say 4000 bales of cotton, and has
shipped and will ship large quantities of grain.
Next in the ord-r of " not mentioned coun-
ties " is
ellis,
lying immediately south of Dallas. This is
also a very fine producing county; nearly
every foot of it can be tilled. Waxahachie
the county seat, is a thriving town of say 2500
inhabitants. Ellis and Palmer are the princi-
pal shipping points, both forwarding large
quantities of cotton and grain grown in Ellis
county. Next comes
limestone,
immediately south of Freestone, Groesbeeck
the county seat. This county has had some
drawbacks in the way of internal political
troubles, which, however, are about allayed,
and tne county has commenced to fill with an
indus rious and thriftv people. Groesbeeck
and Kosse are the principal shipping pointp.
Cotton and corn are the chief productions of
the county. Lying immediately south of
Limestone is
robertson,
with Bremond, Calvert and Hearne, all prom-
inent towns, located on the Houston and Texas
Central ttailroad, Calvert beina? the county
seat and the principal town of the county.
This may be said to be an entirely cotton and
corn country, no other small grain being pro-
duced except here and there for home con-
sumption. Hearne is the crossing of the In
ternational and Great Northern and Houston
and Texas Central Railways, and is a place of
some importance on account of the shops of
these companies being located there. Refer-
ence for this county, H. R. Hearne, Hearne
postoffice. Next is
WASHINGTON,
on the Western Branch. Brenham, the county
seat and most important town in the county,
ty, ships twenty-five thousand bales or
cotton annuaily. Soil of the richest charac-
ter; generally well tilled. Brenham is a pleas-
ant town of 5000 inhabitants, with first class
society, schools and churches. There are
many noted institutions of learning in this
c°unty—iocated at Independence and Chap
pell Hill. From Washington we go into
Fayette; La Grange the county seat. This
county is inhabited principally by Germans,
who are thrifty and are rapidly gathering
wealth Its chief production is cotton. Led-
better is the shipping point. Financial condi-
tion of the county is first-class Schools and
churches indicative of an intelligent and
Christian people. Next is Travis. Austin, the
flPitf$££ff6wlf;Jin~rac£,~ the principal city of
the county, and next in population and impor-
tance to Dallas. It is naturally the most beau-
tiful city in the State, and its people have
added much to this by their new and hand-
some styles of architecture. Travis is both a
cotton and grain-growing county. Austin is
the cbiaf market, in fact the only market, for
this county, as well as Williamson, Burnet,
Lampasas, 8an Saba, Hayes, Blanco, Llano,
Mason and Gillespie. From Travis we jump
across to the Waco Branch into Falls county,
with Marlin as county seat—a (trowing town of
say 2"00 inhabitants. This county has some
very fine and productive farms. Marlin, the
principal shipping point, will ship this year
10/00 to 12,000 bales of cotton. It is also the
market for Milam and a portion of Bell coun-
ty. For the counties tributary we give the
names of Denton, Cooke, Montaerue, Wise,
Tarrant and Parker—all of which pro-
duce largelv of cotton grain and fruit.
The management of this line has
for many years, encouraged home produc-
tions. It is exceptional in this respect, and as
one of the results, we give the location and
names of a number of merchant flouring mills,
which its policy and liberality have built up:
Waco, Waco City Millls, Brazos Mills; Ennis.
McEnnia Mills; Waxahachie, Allen Mills;
Hutchins, Reciprocity Mills; Lancaster, Lan-
caster Mills; Dallas, Dallas City Mills, Todd
Mills, Parker's Mills, King's Mills. Terry's
Mills; Piano, Moreman's Mills, Blalack Mills:
McKinney, Union Mills, Farmers' and Mer-
chants'Mills, Burrows & Shirley's Mills; Me-
lissa, Alamo Mills; Van Alstyne, Van Alstyne
Mills; Sherman, Sherman Mills, Magnolia
Mills. Farmers' Mills, Ledwich Mills; Denison,
Lone Star Mills, Collins's Custom Mills. In
this connection reference is made to the note
under the head of freight statistics, showing
one hundred thousand barrels of flour pro-
duced at and shipped from these mills for
year ending April 30, 1677. This, of course,
in addition to the home or local consumption
of those mills. The present management of
the Central took charge of its operations on
the first of May, and they believe that the
Central now has a bright future before it. Pass
ing. as it does, through the most wealthy ag-
ricultural and mercantile portions of the 8tate.
it is made the great artery channel of trans-
portation between the producer and the con-
sumer, connecting the great Trunk lines of
the North, with magnificent steamship lines
of Mr Morgan from Houston to New Orleans,
New York and Havana.
Lands of this Company.—This company has
received from the State as a bonus 8204 sec-
tions, amounting to 5,240 560 acres of land. It
has been the policy of the company not to
sell, but to locate its certificates, so, with the
exception of about 19.255 acres, it now owds
the whole of the above amount of land lo-
cated in various parts of the State, and com-
prising, if not the best, as fine a lot of lands
as those of any other company in the coun-
try. These they have now placed on the
market. Embracing, as they do, locations as
far north as. the northern boundary of the
Pan Handl? and as far south as the vicinity of
Matagorda bay, and from the Sabine on the
east to the Upper Rio Grande on the west, are
sufficiently diversified as to climate, soil 'and
adaptability to; crops to meet the wants of all
classes of fayners. In the eastern part of the
btate, in what is known as the timber region
the company has: In Newton county, 25,6l6
acres; in Jasoer county, 80,938 acres; in Tri-
nity county, 9823; in Polk county, 9600; in Har-
din, 23,040; embracing fine forests of yellow
pine timber. If properly cultivated and taken
care of. they are good farming lands. Expe-
rience lias proven that one year with another
there are few counties where better crops are
made than in the counties named. The sea-
sons are more uniform than in the prairie re-
gion, and the cold north winds that prevail in
the western or prairie counties are scarcely
felt in this part of the State. On those light
lands the cotton crop thrives remarkably well,
and while at this time the crops in the rich
bottoms along the Brazos and Colorado rivers
are being destroyed by the caterpillar, the
planters in Newton and Jasper are unhurt,
tie'&tre,~"Hhd- vegetables or all kinds! For
sweet potatoes tiiere is no better country, and
almost every farmer has his little patch of
ribbon sugar cane from which he makes his
■irup ana perhaps enough sugar for home
consumption. In fact, the citizens of
that portion of the State are more in-
dependent of the outside world and come
nearer "living at heme" than in any other
portion of the State. In tu9 lower tier of coun-
ties, contiguous to the coast, the company
has several large bodies of prairieJ lands: In
Chambers county, 19,200 acres; in Liberty
county,* 32.000 acres; in Harris county,*28,160
acres; in Waller county, 41,280 acres, in Aus-
tin county, 29,120 acres; in Fo/t Bend county,
30.000 acres; in Wharton county, 10,000 acres;
all fine grazing lands, and most of them good
for farming, capable of producing cotton,
corn, sugar, potatoes, and any amount or
"garden truck.*' Hundreds of carloads of
vegetables, melons, etc , were shipped up the
Central Railroad the past season to the more
northern counties and to the Indian Territory,
Kansas and Missouri, raised upon just sue*
lands as the company is now offering for s*1©
at from $1 50 to $2 per acre. It has fui*ner
west, in Caldwell county, 8960 acres; in Guada-
lupe county, 10,240 acres; in Wilson-ounty,
8540 acres. These are of a different character,
lying in a high rolling country, wb«re the air
is dry, pure and health-giving. Tl>* soil is gen-
erally a light sandy loam with y«low clay sub-
soil, and is generally covered vith a growth of
post-oak timber, yet are adapted to the growth
of cotton and corn; and oati, wheat, rye, bar-
ley and millet grow verr well, but have not
yet been very largely cul-'ivated. In the mid-
dle portion of Texas it has: In Limestone
county, 5760 acres; in Johnson county, 9000;
in Hill county, 1920 acres; in Comanche coun-
ty. 26 915 acres; in Eastland county, 90,826
acres. These lands are all in that section of
the State where cotton and wheat grow in the
same field and do equally well. The tide of
immigration flowing into this country shows
that It is beginning to be appreciated. The
Knds in the three former counties are prairie.
Generally, the soil is black loam, occasionally
changing to a chocolate color. These lands
being in the sotcjed portion of the State, are
either already, or destined in the near future
to have the conveniences of railroad trans-
portation, offer superior inducements to set-
tlers. The lands in Comanche in Eastland are
generally what are called post-oak lands, be-
ing in the upper cross-timbers. Tney have
better facilities^">r building material and fuel
than in most other Western counties.
Cattle do well In all these counties, and
the last named hogs grow and
fatten without other feed than is barely suf-
ficient to keep th«rr tame and gentle South-
went, of these there are in Han Saba county
32,000 acres, in M'-Culloeh count* 81.120 acres,
in Concho county 17,000 acres, well adapted
to cotton, corn, grain and stock-raising This
portion is desirable on account of the healthy
climate and pnre air. The fact is, cotton
gr< ws in any of the settled counties in the
State, ai'd grain grows well, except within
lW or &K) miles « f the coast. To the west and
northwest the company has almost a contin-
uous cnain f su -veys extending from the vi-
cinity of Fort Concho to Red river, embracing
e large bodies of fine lands. Those In
Clay. Wichita, Wilbarger, Archer, Baylor,
Haskell, Jones and Shackelford are now in
market. These are very superior wheat lands,
and are well suited to immigrants from the
West and Northwest. In the extreme West,
on the Pecos and between that stream ana
the Rio Grande, they own some large bodies
of land, some of which are supposed to con-
tain valuab'e minerals, and some have facili
ties for irrigation. In the extreme North-
west, or Pan handle, they own large bodies of
lands, including a frontage of over 100 miles on
the Canadian river. The lands In this part
of the State have all the appearance of rich
lands. At present they alrord pasturage for
millions of buffalo and will, no doubt. In a
few years support as many cattle. It Is sup-
posed to be equal to Kansas and the Indian
Territory as a grain country. The wisdom of
the policy adopted in 1854, of donating lands
to railroads, is beginning to be developed.
While it, no doubt, has stimulated the build-
ing of railroads, it has redound* d to the ad-
vantage of the State in a far greater degree.
With an immense domain that the State was
unable to have sectlonized and made availa-
ble, by giving one-half to railroad companies,
it has had the alteanate half surveyed free
from all cost, and applied as a permanent
school fund; recovering back in office fees
from the railroads almost enough to sustain
one of the most expensive departments of
the 8tate government. Besides this, it brings
into taxation a very large amount of territory
that would have remained unproductive for
years, and enlists as promoters of emigration
institutions that by affording facili ies to set-
tlers to get into the country, and liberally ad-
vertising its advantages, is bringing into the
State thousands of valuable citizens every
year, swelling its population, bringing pur-
chasers for its school lands and developing the
resources of the State.
officers.
Charles A. Whitney. President. New Or-
leans; George Jordan, Vice President, Hous-
ton; A. S. Richard son. Secretary; E. W. Cave,
Treasurer; A. H. Swansen, General Superin-
tendent; J. Waldo, General Freight and Ticket
Agent.
Texas and Pacific Railway.
line of road.
Southern Division—Shreveport, La., to Fort
Worth. Texas; 222 miles.
Transcont'nent-1 Division—Texarkana to
Sherman; 154 miles
Jefferson Division—Texarkana to Marsha 1;
68 miles.
Sidings and other tracks, 27 miles; gauge
4 feet 8^ inches; rail 56 lbs.
This company are successors of t he Southern
r aciflc Company. The u timate object of the
company is to carry tbelr line through Texas,
Arizona, and Southern California, to San
Diego, en the Pac flc Ocean, distant from
Shreveport 1515 miles. The company Is en-
dowed by Congress with two land grants, ag-
gregating 9,520,000 acres, and from the State
of Texas 10,2i>0 acres for every mile construct-
ed and equipped.
We clip from the official report of the direc-
tors, made August 14:
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Against which is charged:
For legal expenses $ 9.292 88
•• general office expenses 41,053 96
•• insurance 8,685 13
•' premium on gold and
exchange 37,424 20
taxes 55,121 63
•• interest on first mort-
gage bonds 117,962 00
- interest on consolida-
ted bonds 415,530 00
• Interest on floating d'bt 24,375 69
710,545 49
Surplus $318,985 02
In comparison with the year Pre™*^5' f
JD-BTO-pefcenr-
In working expenses there was an increase
Of $460,563 94.
In net earnings there was an increase of
$18,264 38, or 2 7-10 per cent.
The gross earnings per mile of road opera-
ted were $4926 95, against $4814 23, a gain of
$112 72 per mile, or 2 3-10 per cent.
The working expenses per mile of road ope-
rated were $3260 87, against $2744 25 last year,
increase of $516 62 per mile, or 18 8 10 per
cent.
The net earnings per mile were $1666 08,
against $2059 98 las, year, a decrease of 19 5-10
per cent.
The gross earnings of the Transcontinental
Division for the year were $315,920 t>6, or $2,-
375 34 per mile, and on the Jefferson and
Sou1 hern divisions they were $1,727,432 6-4, or
$6131 43 per mile, an average of $1926 95 100
per mile for the three divisions.
Receipts from passenger traffic
were $524,198 47
Last year they were 397,426 S2
Increase 31 91-100 per cent, or.... $126,771 65
Increase of revenue from local passengers
was 36 9-10 per cent.; from through passengeis
it was 25 8 10 per cent.
The decrease in the rate of fare per passen-
ger per mile, as compared with last year, is
equal to 4 1-10 per cent.
Receipts from freight traffic for
the year were $1,449,988 48
Last year they were 1,113,043 70
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survey and location of 1457 miles of line west
from Fort Worth, and for construction work
and material on line in California, and be-
tween Sherman and Fort Worth, in addition
to constructing and equipping 444 miles of
road in operation in Texas and Louisiana
+This expenditure is for account of 4,816,546
acres of Texas lands, most of it within the
company's reservation, and which will form a
very valuable asset in estimating the value of
the company's property outeiae of its 444
miles of railway.
tThis expenditure is represented by about
8000 acres of land in San Diego, donated to the
company by the city of San Diego.
STATEMENT
Showing Miles of Tback and Bridging, and
Number of Structures, on all Divisions
of the Texas and Pacific Railway.
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LAND DEPARTMENT.
Under grants from the State of Texas, your
company has become entitled, by the con-
struction of 404 1375-52S0 miles of its road, and
from other sources to 4,81(1,545 39-100 acres of
land, which amount will probablv be increased
by 211J*jj sections, 135,360 acres or land, title to
whUh.it is believed, will ultimately vest In
your company without additional cost, thus
making the t >tal quantity of land owned by
the company 4.951,905 39 100 acres.
Of these lands 3,148,756 39-100 acres have
been already located, leaving 1,667,780 acres
still to be located, your campany having a
preference of location within its reservation
until 1880.
Your company has acquired title to all the
agricultural and timber lands within its reser
vation east of the Pecos river, so that these
1,66 <",789 acres will probably be located be-
tween the Pecos river and the Rio Grande.
The greater portion of the company's lands
lie west of the 100th meridian, there being but
341.374 acres east from that point, ond only
36,667 acres along the line of its completed
road oast of Parker county belonging to the
company.
It is probable that until our line is extended
no considerable sales of lands can be made,
except in exchange for land grant bonds, for
the reason that in many of the organized
oounties there are school, asylum, university
and other lands belonging to the State or to
counties in the market at $1 50 per acre on
ten years time—prices and terms with which
your company do not propose to compete. So
soon as the better portion of such lands are
occupied, as they soon will be by actual set-
tlers, your lands can be brought into market,
and will undoubtedly bring much better
prices.
As many exsggerated statements have been
made as to the quantity of land within the
company's reservation in Texas, it seems
proper to state what the records of the Texas
Land Office show to have been the acreage of
public domain that was subject to location
within the reservation at trie date of the
grant.
As near as can be ascertained, there were
but 15,48i,160 acres of vacant land within the
limits of the reservation granted to this com-
pany by the act of May 2, 1873, of which one-
half were set apart for the school fund, leav-
ing 7,741,080 acres that it was possible for the
company to acquire.
A survey has been made of all lands within
2,798,360 acres have been localecTft yTiver, and
pany. and 1,539,840 acres rejected; anZTtfils
exhausts all the lands held as a part of the
public domain east of the Pecos river.
West of the Pecos there remain 6,805,760
acres ot unsurveyed public domain, of which
the company can acquire 3,402,880 acres; but
from the best information" that can be ob
tained, only a portion of this acreage Is valu-
able for agricultural purposes or for timber-
not more than enough to absorb the 2600 cer-
tificates that your company has to locate with-
in the limits of reservation. There are consider-
able bodies of mineral lands within the reserv-
ation, but it is neither for the interest of the
State nor the company that such lands shou'd
be owned by corporations, but they should be
left free for parties prospecting for minerals
to locate and develop.
The expenditures of the land department
have been as follows:
Increase, 30 27-100 per cent., or. $336,944 78
Increase of revenue from local freight was
equal to 31 8-10 per cent.; from through freight.
23 4 10 per cent.
The decrease in rate per ton per mile, com-
pared with last year, was as follows:
Local freight 16 7-10 per cent.
Through freight 12 2 10
Average 14 5-10
The percentage of working expenses wer*
66 18-100 per cent, of the receipts, against 57
per cent, last year, showing an increase of
8 75-100 per cent.
This largely increased per centage of work-
ing expenses, and consequent decrease of net
revenue, was occasioned, in part, by the hur-
ried manner in which our new road was con
structed, in order to comply with the require
ments of Texas legislation; and the unusually
heayy rains that immediately followed the
turning over of these new sections of the
road to the operating department, which
caused very heavy expenditures, under the
head of maintenance of way, and greatly in-
creased the motive power and rolling stock
repair accounts. They were also increased
by the difficulty of getting enough laborers
to fill the working force required to complete
the new roal within the time required by law,
which forced the employment of a considera-
ble part of our operating force, during the
months of May, June, July and August, on
construction work, and prevented the put-
ting in of a large number of new ties, and
other track work from being done on
the older portions of the road du' ing the dry
weather, and such work in wet weather can
only be done at a greatly Increased cost. This
left the track on the old roadway in bad order
during the winter months, and ir«^A foiiow-
ing spring necessitated very heavy eaoendi-
tures for repairs and replacements.
The road, however, is now in very fair ~
dition, and can be maintained and imprc
from year to year at reasonable costb
operating department.
13 3
Cost of certificates, pa-1
tent fees, and other j ,
expenditures at and } $ 7,311 62
incidental to the State j ;
Land Office !
General expenses, in- ]
eluding, salaries clerk j
hire, stationery, pre- f
paring maps, etc j
Total expenditures $35,589 41 $233,439 68
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$ 46,185 83
187,244 85
It will be noticed that the gro?s earn• jgs per
mile show a small gain over the previous year,
but it is all that could reasonably have been
expected, as our new road was not completed
in season to move the grain crop of Northern
Texas. The cotton crop on our north line was
also injured somewhat by the worm, the num-
ber of bales moved on 154 miles of the Trans-
continental Division, between Sherman and
Texarkana, being but 44,695 bales, against 35,-
632 bales handled on the 65 miles of road be-
tween Sherman and Paris the previous year;
the gross receipts per m le on 154 miles of the
and Southern Divisions, but with the pr'?ent
prospect of good crops, the mileage **-rnings
should be largely increased the c'mrtnt y©ar.
'ihe total number of passengers J4r'
ried one mile was
Last year it was 10,110,024
Showing a gain of 37 35-VJ Kr.ct,,.0J 3,776,475
The number ol' tons of-rei8&t hauled
one mile was
Last year it was.. -jo.uuo, , tk.
Showing a gain-1' 54 85 100 P«rct., or. 15,363.122
The total t"ina8e moved during the year is
shown by 416 following comparative state-
ment :
Compa»*tive Statement Showing the Num-
bepjf Tons and Class of Fheight Hauled
Fr»t the Years Ending May 31, 1876 and
1875-6^ 1876-7.
1876. 1877. Tons. Tons.
Cotton, (bales), 188,196 230.133 47.049 56,740
Grain, (bush. > 806,418 414,782 23.953 11,522
Flour and meal 18,001 20,304
Miscellaneous animal products
Live stock (head) v .85,247
Miscellaneous agric'i products
the co
vengef
18,001
6,475
67,728
8,267
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Forest products, (lumber, etc.) 67,728
Products of mines and quar-
Manufaotures
General merchandise
Railroad material
1,399
11,435
40,536
976
98,356
11,417
98,356
1,586
26 275
44,732
40,859
Total tons 254,288 355,789
An increase of 101,501 tons, or 39 91-100 per
cent, over preceding year.
The cotton shipments were 230.133 bales.
Last year they were 188,196
Showing an increase of 22 28-100
percent, or 41,937
Condensed Balance Sheet—General Lidger.
Texas and Pacific Railway Company—May
31, 1877.
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Immigration into the State during the past
year has been very large—larger than ever be-
fore in its history—and the indications are
that it will be greater the coming season.
With a view of directing immigration to the
counties through which your lines are located,
carefully prepared county maps and circulars
have been printed for distribution, giving the
precise location of the company's lands, and
of the State, school, asylum, university and
county lands, and the manner of acquiring
them; and it is believed that this method of
advertising will bring on to your line many
immigrants during the coming year.
CONGRESSIONAL AID.
In our last report mention was made of pro-
posed congressional action to secure the ear-
ly completion of your road through to the Pa-
cific Ocean.
A bill providing for a government guarantee
of interest at the rate of 5 per cent, per an-
num, on a limited issue of Texas and Pacific
Railway Company bonds, was Introduced and
perfected before the Railroad Committees of
the Senate and House of Representatives, and
was reported favorably to the House by the
chairman of its committee on Pacific Rail-
roads, but the political and other complica-
tions connected with the presidential election
and the installation of a President delayed ac-
tion until the session was too near Its close to
give it that attention which the friends of the
bill invited.
The bill hart ^^ny friends, and would, it is
believed, had it oeen pressed to a vote, have
been favorably acted upon, but those interest-
ed in its passage declined to urge action up-
on what might be considered a private bill,
while the attention of Congress and the pub-
lic was centered upon national mat:ers of
much importance.
"tiere were, of courte, many oDponents to
bill, some of them persons conscientiously
»sed to the government granting aid in
irm to works 'f internal improvement;
far the larger number were persons ac-
>y sordid or selfish considerations, or
^ >nal resentment, because of refusal
th«ir extortionate demands upon
• These latter have been re-
mitter in asserting the enterprise to
be a " »ad in charging corrupt motives
upO".lts promoters, and gross venality against
rnendly to the measure, or who would not
join with them in denouncing it, and both
^ai'Jiand rt, :fwpece 'to
the measure itself, the amount of government
liability to be assumed, and as to the persona
connected with and friendly to its passage.
It seems proper therefore in this connection
to state just what is proposed by the Texas
and Pacilc Railway bill before Congress.
The bill provides that an independent
through line of railroad and telegraph shall be
constructed at the lowest possible cash cott
from Fort Worth via El Paso and Fort
Yuma, to ship's channel, in the Bay
of San Diego, on the Pacific Ocean
a distance of 1400 miles; and that such line'
together with the 444 miles of Texas and Pa^
ciflc Railway now completed and in operation,
shall be forever held as an open highway for
the use of the government and the people, and
that all connecting companies, and all locali-
ties. shall be put on an equality as to its use,
and that the government shall have a general
supervision of. and the right to regulate the
rates for transportation of freight and pas-
sengers over said roads, having due regard
only for the interests of the government and
the people in its use, and for the actual capi-
tal invested in its construction.
It also provides that the company or com-
panies, one or more, that shall construct this
1400 miles of road and telegraph, shall issue 5
per cent, gold interest bearing bonds upon It,
to an amount not exceeding $35,000 per mile,
or an aggregate not exceeding $10,C00,000
upon the whole line betwsen Fort Worth ***1
San Dlcgo, all such bonds to be deposited with
the Secretary of the Treisury of the United
States; and that the United States shall cause
to be indorsed on bonds 90 deposited, a guar-
antee of the prompt paynent of the interest
(not the principal); the bands so guaranteed
to be redelivered by the Secretary or the Treas-
ury, only as sections of tie road shall be con-
structed, on the sworn statement of commis-
sioners as to its cost, sich deliveries in no
event £to exceed the etat of any section
or an average excelling $^0,000 per
mile for the whole line, hrough both plain
and mountainous country, the total liability
of the government not tc exceed two and a
hall millions per annum, to be secured by a
first mortgage on the entts road and its ap-
purtenances, and on abou 18,000,000 acres of
land in New Mexico, Ariz»a and California,
heretofore granted by the government to aid
in its construction, also jjon all lands that
shall be acquired under g«nts from the State
of Texas in aid of the porion of line to be
constructed west from hrt Worth in that
State.
The bill further provibs that at least
$7.000,000 of the company'soonds so deposited
with the Secretary of the Treasury—$5000 per
mile—and more if the costcf the road shall be
less than an average of $.1000 per mile, shall
be retained in the Treairy of the United
States, until the line sail be completed
through; such retained bojds to be sold from
time to time by the Secretly ot the Treasury,
in case the earnings of thi road from trans-
portation of troops and upplles and other
government transportatlo. Including postal
and telegraphic service, »nd the entire net 1
cash proceeds of sales oiland, and the net
earnings of the road fron all other sources, I
shall not be sufficient duing construction, to
meet the*payments of Interest as they shall
mature from time to time; all receipts from
government business and from land sales, to
>e retained by the government for this pur-
pose.
A recent statement of the Secretary of the
Treasury shows the government indebtedness
for account of the Central Pacific and Union
Pacific Railroad Companies, and their branch
or connecting lines, on July 1, 1877, to have
been $92,066,791 19; and this enormous subsi-
dy. upon which there is to be no payment on
account of principal or interest by the com-
panies for twenty years, acts as a standin g
menace against the investment of private
capital in any competirg trans-continental
railway. . .
The annual Interest upon this debt, $5,524,-
000, which is paid by the government, is prac-
tically a yearly subsidy or payment for the
benefit of these Pacific companies.
Under such circumstances, the trans-conti-
nental traffic of this whole country, that has
been so placed, by action of the government,
under the absolute control of a few individ-
uals, must remain without the advantages of
competition for at least a generation, unlets
Congress shall take some action to correct an
evident defect in previous Pacific Railway le-
gislation. 4 „ .
Tne proposed Texas and Pacific bill is in-
tended to do this, by securing the completion,
with private capital, of an independent line
of railway, connecting the waters of the Mis-
sissippi river with the Pacific Ocean, at the
lowest possible cash cost for its construction.
Congress retaining the right to regulate the
traffic rates for its use by the government and
the people for all time to come
The bill Is Intended to secure this without
cost to the government, and if it is not so
drawn as to fully protect the interests of the
government and the rights of the people, it
should be amended.
In the interest of commerce, and also for
the benefit of the industrial interests of the
country that so greatly need some assistance,
it is hoped that the general government will
act, and by passing tne proposed bill, or some
other measure that will produce the same re-
sult to the government and to the people, se-
cure to the country the great benefits that
must come from the demand for labor, in the
construction of this and other connecting
lines, that will surely follow.
Beginning at Shreveport, the starting point
of the main line, proceeding westward, we find
the following stations: Race Track, Jewella,
Beckville, Flournoy, Greenwood. Wa-kom,
JonesviUe, Scottsviile and Marshall. At the
latter place local headquarters have been es-
tablished, with large car shops, turn-tables,
freight and passenger depots, etc. The town
itself is the largest ana most important in
Eastern Texas, having a population of some
three or four thousand inhabitants, is the
county seat of Harrison county, and altogether
a substantially constructed town.
From Marshall, going westward and „
through Abney*s. Hallville and Mason Springs,
the road reaches its junction with th«~ Interna-
tional and Great Northern Railroad, one mile
from Longview, the latter more extensively
improved than any point on the main line be-
tween Marshall and Dallas, unless Terrell is
excepted. Longview, by the two r ads which
connect there, becomes a competitive point
for freights, and t-hips considerable cotton an-
nually, cotton beingthe prin ipal article offer-
ing. West of Longview the road passes Wil-
low Springs, Gladwater, Neai's, Big Sandy,
Hawkins and Lakeford, reaching Miueola, the
county seat of Wood couuty. another heavy
cotton shipping point. Proceeding westward
is found Silver Lake. Grand Saline, Edge wood,
Wills Point, Elmo, Terrell, Lawrence, Forney,
Mesquiie and Dallas. The last five points are
not only favorably located on lands adapted
for _ the production of cotton, but for small
grain, wheat, oats, ryej and barley being culti-
vated more extensively than cotton. Dallas,
the principal city of North Texas, is
the county seat of Dallas county, has 13,000 to
15,C00 inhabitants, three daily newspapers,
besides quite a list of weeklies; four large
mills, two cotton compresses; two elevators;
several founderies and other manufactories,
and has greater facilities for shipment of the
grain and cotton crop of North Texas than
any other city, because the Houston and Texas
Central road crosses the Texas and Pacific
directly in the city and affords competitive
rates. A large proportion of immigrants to
Texas make Dallas tneir point of departure for
other sections, being able to reach almost any
place in Northern, Eastern or Central Texas
by rail. West of Dallas the small stations of
iiagle Ford, Grand Prairie, Arlington and Vil-
lage Cre-k are young but growing rapiJly;
not, however, to the fame extent as the west-
ern terminus, Fort Worth, which three years
ago had not more than 500 inhabitants, but
now claims 5000 and still increasing. At no
time since the completion of the road to
that point has there been a less number of
stores and dwellings undergoing con&truction
than £0, the number having often been esti-
mated at double these figures. The stores are
mostly brick, of neat apt earance and appar-
ently afford ample remuneration to their ten-
ants, whose traffic is with the northwestern
counties, Fort Worth being their nearest rail-
road point.
THE JEFFERSON DIVISION.
From Marshall to Texarkana Texans trav-
eling northward over the main line of the
Texas Pacific or by the International and
Great Northern road, pass over this division
to reach Texarkana, where they connect with
the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern
road. The stations on this branch ate mostly
located convenient to steam saw mills, which
furnish the 1 rincipal article for exportation,
except at Jefferson, once far outstripping
Marshall or Dallas, but whose immense trade
was divided up and carried away by the road
until she was compelled to build a road her-
self, since the commencement of which a
steady improvement has been evident.
TRANSCONTINENTAL DIVI8ION.
The present western terminus of this di
vision is at Sherman, the county seat of Gray
son county, and a handsome, well-constructed
city of some 8000 inhabitants. Grayson "
of the most fertile counties of North I
its high prairie lands yielding largely of
Whftfc*nre*t5oi/berrrt~rr» treA ixtfr* -nmr'Vtvu^fct
cotton and corn in greater quantity than al-
most any other part of Texas. Sherman has
large hotels, compresses, machine shops and
other industrial institutions. A few years
hence the tide of immigration that has been
steadily flowing in this direction, will necessi-
tate even a greater number than now exist.
This division of the Texas and Pacific road
passes eastward through a continuous belt of
country like that surrounding Sherman, and
through the flourishing towns of Bonham,
Honey Grove, Paris, Blossom Prairie, Clarks-
ville, Douglass and Dekalb, besides a number
of less note, and connects at Texarkana with
the Jefferson division.
officers :
Thos. A. 8cott, president, Philadelphia, Pa.;
Frank 8. B nd, vice president, Philadelphia.
Pa.; John C. Brown, vice president, Marshall,
Texas; Geo. D. Krumbhaar, Philadelphia,
treasurer; C. E Satterlee, Philadelphia, se-
cretary; Geo. Noble, general superintendent
T. D. Maurer, auditor; R. W. Thompson, gen
eral passenger and ticket agent; W. H. New-
ma", general freight agent; W. H. Abrams,
land commissioner; H. Kretz, cashier.
General offices, Marshall, Texas. Execu
tlve office, No. 275 South Fourth street, Phila-
delphia.
Galveston, Harrlsburg and San An-
tonio.
Line of road, Harrisburg to San Antonio,
215 miles; side tracks. 20 miles: gauge. 4 feet
8>£ inches; rail (steel 41 miles,) 5} and HO ths.
This road, which has received the entire at-
tention of its President and principal owner,
Mr. T. W. Peirce. of Boston, and has been by
his almost sole influence and financial ability
carried forward to completion, was opened
for traffic to San Antonio, March 1, 1877. and
is now being extended two miles further to
the cattle yards. A branch to New Braun-
fels, 10 miles from Marion, is projected, but
no definite arrangements have been consum
mated.
The road had on January 1, 1877: Rolling
stock—locomotives, 19; revenue cars—passe 1 -
ger, 17, baggage, mail and express, 7; freight
—box, 1*»7; stock, 140; platform, 181.
[As the report mailed the News from Bos-
ton has been delayed, we adopt the financial
statement of H. V. Poor's manual.]
Operations for the year ending December
31, 1876: Trains run—passenger 110,098;
freight, 190 182; other, 128,610. Passengers
carried, 40,719. Freights moved, 113,426 tons.
earnings and expenditures.
Dr.
tiiemos; prominent. Pine Inmber forbulld-
mg purposes comes from Eastern Texas by
rail. It is sold for $30 per thousand feet. The
Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Rail-
way runs through the county from east to
w*est. The population of f Colorado county is
18,000, ^'hlch 1',000 are whites and
i°90 are colored. The white vote exceeds the
colored by about 234 The as3essed value of
property in the county is about $2 500,000
Eagle yLake, Alley ton and Weimar are all
railroad depots in this county, and all are im-
portant shipping points. Weimar is the most
western depot in the coun<y, and consequent-
ly the newest one. It is surrounded by one
of the finest and most fertile districts in the
8tate, and already has become a place of con-
siderable importance. It has 500 inhabitants,
14 general mercantile houses, 1 church used
by Presbyterians, Methodists and Baptists-
1 German public school, 2 American public
schools, 1 Weimar Institute, 3 drug stores, l
hardware rtore, 1 furniture store. 2 lumber
yards, 2 wagon shops, 2 blacksmith shops. 2
shoe shops The town was laid off October 3,
1873, and the depot opened on the 17th of No-
vember following. Its surroundings are such
that it is bound to be a thriv ng and prosper-
ous town for an indefinite period of time.
Surrounding Weimar there is a great deal of
valuable land yet unimproved than can be
bought on easy terms. Only once in fifteen
years have crops suffered from drouth in this
section. It is one of the finest farming re-
gions in the State, and as healthy as any-
where.
flatonia,
In Fayette county, like Weimar, is sur-
rounded with good lands of similar adapta-
bility. It has 800 inhabitants and 26 general
merchants. 2 churches, Methodist and Baptist,
3 schools, 1 public and 2 private; 2 hotels.
Three new business houses have been erected
within the last six months, and nearly all the
old houses have been enlarged.
waelder,
also in Fayette county, has 100 inhabitants, 2
hotels, 5 mercantile houses, 1 stove and tin
shop, 1 steam grist mill and cotton gin, 1 pub-
lic Bchool, 1 house of worship, 2 church or-
ganizations—Baptist and Methodist.
l cling,
next on the list, is liKe her neighbor towns, ex-
cept being the point at which the numerous
visitors disembark when en route to Card-
well's and other wells and springs, whose heal
ing properties are attracting much more at
tention each year. Inhabitants, about 950:
schools, 3-2 white and 1 colored; business
houses, 29; hotels, 4; church buildings, 2;
church denominations, 4—Episcopal. Baptist.
Presbyterian and Methodist; 1 Masonic Lodge;
1 Odd Fellows Lodge: 2 lumber yards.
new philadelphia
is a settlement composed mostly of Philadel-
phians, and is located at West Bernard cwek,
Wharton county, on the line of the Galveston,
From pas«engers.
From freights
Mail and express..
Miscellaneous —
Cr.
For maintenance of
way
For rolling stock
For transportation.
Miscellaneous
$128,814 64
673.468 80
22,651 70
17,357 13
$842,294 21
$49,764 49
118,546 43
134,927 60
22,671 89—$325,910 41
$516,383 86
Balance—Net earnings (61.31 per cent) $516.-
383 86; add profit from supply account. $12,773
—available revenue, $5^9.156 86.
Payments—Interest on funded debt. $59.58-3
79; and on sinking fund loan, $51,376 59; State
ane local taxes, $6941 84; balance remaining
at credit of income account, $401,254 72.
On an average of 173 miles operated, the
earnings in 1876 were $4868 73 per mile; the
working expenses. $ :883 85, and the net earn-
ings applicable to interest, $2984 85 per mile.
statement of indebtedness.
Bonded debt issued $4,200,000 00
Bonded debt outstanding 2,178,000 00
Bue school fund of Texas, which
liquidates itself in 1890 by pay-
ing 3 per cent, interest ana 1 per
cent, sinking fund each six
months—May 1 and Novem-
ber 1,, - 42 it flaw*
Total funded debt $2,604,198 72
floating debt.
Due T. W. Peirce for advances.. .$1,353,756 63
Bills payable 473,939 53
Sundry accounts due connecting
railroads 58.011 09
$1,885,707 25
means of payment.
2022 bonds $2,022,000 00
$250,000 Bexar county bonds 250,000 00
Balance due from agents and con-
necting railroads 76.412 04
$2,348,412 04
The mortzage covers the entire property
and franchises of the company. The pro
ceeds of the sales t*' the subsidy lands (16 sec-
tions per m*le) will go to the trustees and be
used to purchase bonds in the market. They
are further secured by a sinking fund of one
per cent, to commence in 1880, for which bonds
are to be drawn annuaily.
The net earnings for March, 1377, (since the
opening to San Antonio), show a gain over
corresponding month last year of $24,800, an 1
for April, 1877, over same month 1876, of $25 -
000.
Since last review the company has leased the
right to run over the Brazor.a Tap branch of
the I. and G. N. Company from Peirce Junc-
tion to Houston, a distance of Beven miles.
By this arrangement all passenger trains are
run from Houston, as the eastern terminus,
instead of Harrisbnrg, to which point freight
trains still run. The road bed beyond Co-
lumbus is conceded to be one of the best in
the South, bridging being princirally iron
with stone abu'ments. From Houston west-
ward, the first point of interest is Peirce Junc-
tion, where large numbers of cattle are ship-
ped to Galveston, St. Louis and the East.
Richmond, the county seat of Fort Bend
county, comes next. From there heavy ship-
ments of sugar and cotton are made Tne
town itself has not improved to any great ex-
tent for several years past. Next is Colum-
bus, the county seat of Colorodo county, is
situated on the webt back of the Colorado
river. Population between 3500 and 4000, with
thirty general business houses, one banking
house, three white schools, one colored pri-
vate school, seven churches, four white and
three colored. Considerable improvement
going on, and the population increasing
proportionately. Colorado county has an area
of 905 square miles. About one half is prai-
rie and the other half timber. The timber
lands are scattered, however; there is an
abundance for fencing and fuel purposes ail
over the county. It is one of the best farm-
ing counties in the State, the soil being aen-
eraliy very productive, The average yieldis,
of corn 30 to 40 bushels, and of cotton from
one-half to one and a half bales to the acre.
The principal productions are cotton, corn, rye
•nd oats. Fruits and vegetables are also abun-
dantly produced. The county is well watered
and a lanse proportion of the lands are bot-
tom lands. Well water is obtained by digging
from 25 to .33 feet. The Colorado river runs
through the center of the county. There are
in this county a variety of lands, among which
the black sandy prairie, the black hog wallow
prairie, the chocolate *nd the gray lands are
'hians, and is located at West Bernard
ty.. :
Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway. The
settlement was made lata in January of this
year (1877).
schulenburg,
another newly settled town, has about 000 in-
habitants, fifteen mercantile houses, one sad-
dlery shop, two bakeries, three hotels, one
restaurant, three churches, two public
schools, and one livery stable. The town is
constantly improving.
marion,
in Guadalupe county, a new town on the Gal-
veston. Harrisburg and San Antonio Railroad,
opened for business on the 20th of June last,
hae grown quite rapidly, and now contains
four hotels, one livery stable, one blacksmith
shop, two general assortment grocery stores,
two dry goods stores, and two market houses,
with a population of about 150, supported by
a rapidly growing neighborhood. It is eight
mites from New Braunfels. twelve from
Seguin, twenty-five from San Antonio and
twenty from Laveruiaand Sutherland Springs.
Stage leaves daily for Austin both ways. Is
considered one of the most accessible and
convenient in Western Texas.
seguin,
the county seat of Guadalupe county, a hand-
Eome town of 2100 inhabitants, has many natu-
ral attractions for health-seekers as well as
business men and farmers, there being large
bodies of prairie land bordered wi h timber.
Seguin depot is located a short distance
from the town, to which handsome busses are
run, connecting with all passenger trains
Mercantile houses—dry goods and groceries
11, groceries 6; saddlery shops 2, tin shops 2,
shoe shops 3, breweries 3, be?f markets 5, car-
riage and wood shops 3, blacksmith shop3 3,
saloons 5, drug stores 2, lumber merchants 2,
commission merchants 1. hotels 2, restaurants
2; Churches—Methodist (German) 1. Metho-
dist (American) 1, Presbyterian (American) 1,
Episcopal 1. Catholic 1, Baptf-t 2; Swedenbor-
gian 1. Lutheran (German) 1, Baptist (colored)
1, Methodist (colored) 1; Colleges (privat?)2>
Free Schools (white and colored) 14.
The town is improving, and destined to be a
city of importance in a few years, owing to
beautiful location, health, wealth of citizens,
cheapness of lands and splendid water powers
on the Guadalupe. Some of the finest water
powers in the State are on the river within a
mile of town.
Between Seguin and San Antonio lies as
pretty a body of land as can be seen in any
country, the cultivated portion of which will
compare favorably with the bsst portions of
Illinois or Kentucky.
san antonio,
the Queen City of the Southwest, as her citi-
zens delight to call her, has been so thorough-
ly described that almost every one has heard
of her. Still, it can be said that since the
railroad reached her doors she has received
many additions to her population, which may
safely be set down at 20 L0\ From San An-
tonio passenger trains never start without be-
ing well filled, numbers of whom are citizens
of Northern and Eastern States, who have
heard of the beneficial effects received by
those suffering from pulmonary or bronchial
affections by spending a short time in the dry
atmosphere prevailing there.
OFFICERS ELECT.
J. W. Peirce, President Boston, Mass.; H.
B. Andrews, Vice-President, San Antonio,
Texas; Chas. Babbidge, Treasurer and Assist-
ant Secretary, Boston. Mass.; J. E. Fisher,
• A w^-lftplLinkM.'—owic J8f -rr*t
perintendent, Harrisburg; T. W. Peirce, Jr.,
General Ticket Agent, Harrisburg; C. C.
Gibbs, General Freight Agent, San Antonio.
Dallas and Wichita.
[In Progress.]
Line of road. Da lias to Trinity Mills, 12
miles; gauge of road, 4 feet 8V£ inchcs; rail
56 pounds. This company has 23 miles of road
graded and bridged, but work has been sus-
pended on account of a lock. A compromise
is however pending, when it is believed the
road will be rapidly pushed to Denton. Its
indebtedness is estimated at $200,000 Offi-
cers: W. H. Gaston, president; M. Painter,
vice president; George shields secretary.
Rio Grande Railroad.
Line of road, Brownsville to Point Isabel,
22 miles; gauge 4 feet 8J*j inches; rail 56
pounds.
This road runs from Brownsville, on the Rio
Grande river, to Point Isabel, where Mr. Mor-
gan's ships connact with it It is now in the
hands of Mr. M. J. Gomila, receiver, by whom
it is operated. No report of its operations has
arrived, though mailed several days since.
Tiie present edition of the News is
devoted large y to setting forth the po-
sition of Tela with respect to trade,
production, railroad facilities and man
if old resource* developing or awaiting
development. Taken altogether, but
especially when comparatively consid-
ered, the exhibit is fraught with no ordi-
nary measure of gratification. Causes of
shrinkage and depression, felt so disss
trously elsewhere, have not failed to
operate in Texas; but they have failed
to arrest in any essential particular the
progress .of the State, and the failure,
serves to emphasize and celebrate
the progress as one of the wonders of a
protracted period of general adversity.
Immigration has been checked in other
parts of the country; in some has been
repelled and turned back; but it sets
iot> Texas with the ceaseless, never-
retiring course of the Mississippi flow-
ing into the Gulf or the Amazon flow-
ing into the South Atlantic. Confidence
elsewhere has been chilled with doubts,
misgivings, forebodings; but confidence
in the future of Texas is as firm as her
rock rooted hills and as expansive as
her vast prairies which, like the
boundless ocean, seem to image eter.
nity. Steadily and visibly her produc-
tion is increased, her industry is diver-
sified, her elements of prosperity more
and more enlarged and improved. The
commercial statistics of Galveston have
their own significance; but the situa
tion and outlook of Galveston, or of
any other Texas city, in relation to
trade, furnish no gauge for the pro-
gress of the State at large. Of late
years the conditions of trade have been
rapidly changing. The tendency of ev-
ery normal change is to straighten lizes,
remove the delay and expense of need
less intermediaries, and establish the
closest and cheapest possible connection
between producers and consumers. It|is
a tendency not favorable to the rapid
growth of cities under feverish and
speculative stimulus; but, consonant
with sound principles of economy, it is
conducive to thrift and gain for every
healthy interest identified with the fu-
ture of either city or country. We
should judge the aggregate progress of
Texas by this standard. The world so
judges it, and the world is struck with
admiration at the grandeur of the spec-
tacle and the promise.
Washington Hotel,
Corner Tremont and Mechanic Streets,
GALVESTON,
JOHN SIMMERS, Proprietor.
rphe house has been renovated and refurnished;
i is oentrally located with ample and comfortable accommodations for the traveling pub -
lie; convenient to business, and out two squares from Morgan Line of steamers and one
bloek from Union Depot. Table unsurpassed by any house in the city.
fm.!a I. . . _ .
SEALEBS IN
BUILDERS'HARDWARE AND BRICKS.
Consignments of Country Produce Solicited.
REL * TI1VG
L1M)S.
TO TFX&S
Homestead*, School Lands, Etc,
The unappropriated public domain of the
State is now about 50,000,0C0 of acres. The
largest bodies of this vacant land are in the
northwest—* Pan Handle)—west, and south-
west portions of the State, though there is
more or less vacant land In every county.
These lands are subject to appropriation by
scrip, called land certificates or warrants, and
by actual settlement. ?.s pre-emptions. By
constitutional previs',. a all the laud certifi-
cates that were in e;;i ..ence at the da'.e of the
adoption of the consiiiution in 1876 must be
located and returned to the General Land Of-
fice within five years from that date. All cer-
tificates issued since the adoption of the con-
stitution must be located and returned to the
Land f ffice within five years after issuance,
or be forever barred.
Every head of a family without a homestead
can secure 160 acres, upon condition of locat-
ing and occupying the same for three years,
and paying the surveying and Land Office
fees. Every single man, eighteen years of
age and upwards, without a homestead, can
secure 80 acres upon the same terms.
The lands reserved for common school pur-
poses embrace some of the finest lands in the
State, and can be purchased in tracts of 160
acres at not less than $1 50 per acre, in ten
annual payments, with ten per ceut. interest
—the interest on the whole and one-tenth of
the appraised value payable annually.
The >ands reserved for founding a State
university and for the benefit of the several
charitable asylums, known as University and
Asylum lands, are also for sale in tracts of
not less than eighty acres or more than 160
acres, on same terms as the common school
lands.
Land certificates are subject to sale and
conveyance in the same manner as land. The
purchaser can locate them on any of the un-
appropriated public lands aud secure a title
from tne State by paying the survesing fees
and Land Office charges.
The fees allowed bylaw to surveyors are:
50 csnts for the entry, $3 for every lineal mile,
aud $1 50 for making out and recording field
notes.
The Land Office fees are as follows: Patents
of 320 acres or less, $5; over 320 and including.
640acres, $6; over 640 acre-- and including 1280
acres, $10; over 1280 acres, and including 1476
acres, $12 50; over 1476 acres and lets than one
league and labor (46 5 acres), $15; one league
and labor, $20; and for each additional league
or fractional league, $20.
Certificates issued for internal improve-
ing (the alternate) for tlie State',*
served for the common school land. No other
expense attaches to this class of certificates.
They general y sell in the market for one-
half the price asked for the other class.
Each organized county in the State is aland
district, having a surveyor who is a bonded
officer. He has a map of his county on which
every survey made is accurately 1 -id down,
and any one wishing to locate certificates can
tell at a glance what land and how much, if
any, in the couoty is vacant.
The land measures in use are: One vara,
inches; 5646 square varas, 4840 square
vards, 1 acre; 1 000,000 square yards. 1 l*bor,
17 acres; 8 333 333 square varas, % league,
1476 acres; 25,000,000 square varas, 1 league,
4428 acres; 26,000,090 square varas, 1 league
and 1 labor, 4605 acres.
Taxation—The State tax is 50 cents on $1C00
of value, and can not be exceeded, except tm
pay the public debt. The county tax is 25
cents, and t an exceed that only to pay off
debt already incurred or to erect public
buildings.
Taxes have to be paid in the counties in
which the lands lie, except in unorganized
counties. Residents of unorganized counties
pay their taxes in the county to which the
county of their residence is attached for judi-
cial purposes. Kon-residents of unorganized
counties have to pay the taxes on their lands
in said counties at the Comptroller's office, in
Austin.
The assessment of taxes is made by the
County Assessors between the first day of
January and the 1st day of June of each year.
Tfe collection of taxes begins on the 1st
day of October of each year, or as soon there-
after as the collector can obtain the proper
assessment rolls or data upon which to pro-
ceed with the business, and the taxes must be
paid by the first day of March of the following
year, otherwise the Collector is required to
seize and sell the land for the taxes.
Assessment of taxes constitute a lien upon
all the real and personal property of the de-
linquent taxpayer.
Deeds from the collectors for lands sold fcr
the taxes vests a good and perfe t title in the
purchaser, subject to be impeached only for
actual fraud; but the former owner can re-
deem the same within two years from the
date of the purchaser's deed by paying double
the amount of purchase money and cost3.
Two hundred and fifty dollars worth of
household and kitchen furniture belonging to
each family is exempt from taxation.
The homestead, not in a town or citv. con-
sists cf not more than 200 acres of land,
which may be In one or more parcels, with
the improvements thereon. The homestead
in a city, town or village, consists of a lot or
lots, not to exceed in value $5000 at the time
of their designation as the homestead, with-
out reference to the value of any improve-
ments thereon.
The homestead of a family is exempt from
forced sale, except for the purchase money,
taxes or mechanic's lien; and such lien must
be in writing, with the consent of the wife,
given ia the same manner as is required in
making a sale ana conveyance of the home-
stead— a ,r can the owner. If a man led man,
sell the homestead without the consent of the
wife,
ROYAL CANADIAN INSURANCE CO.,
Of Montreal, Canada.
N. O. LAUVE, General; Agt. for Texas,
AtGalveston.
BURNETT £ KILPATRICK
LESSEES STATE PENITENTIARY,
OFFICES: HUNTSTILLE AND GALVESTON.
Jliscellaneou*.
. k m'alpine,
Galveston.
jas- baldridge,
Washington Co.
M
calpine & baldridge,
€ OTTON FACTORS
and
COiUTIlSSION MERC HANTS,
HENDLEY BUILDINGS, STRAND,
sel 4m Galveston, Texas.
OYSTERS AND FISH.
G. B. MARSAJV,
>Vhole&ale dealer in
Fresli Oysters and Fish.
^'"Solicits orders from the Coimtry.,^g3
CENTRAL WHARF, GALVESTON, TEXAS.
Address P. O. Box 535.
sel 3nl
Notice.
Parties
t.
wishing to at-
tend COURT AT WALLI8VILLE, will
find good accommodations on the
Schooner " Lilly Lanrle,"
Leaving Central Wharf SUNDAY MORNING
at 7 o'clcck. FRANK WALLIS.
sel It* Master.
r a. naowN.
e. s. flint.
It. A. BROWN & CO.,
COTTON FACTORS
and
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
sel 3m GALVESTON, TEXAS.
Cheap Advertisement Column
REAL ESTATE.
FOR SALE—Good building lots on monthly
payments of from $15 to $20. Also, two
nice two-story houses for rent, on I, between
12th and 13th, and 14th and 15th. Money to
loan on choice real estate. H. M. TRUE-
HEART & CO.. Real Estate Agents. au26 6t
NuTICE.—Iudust rious settlers can purchase
city lots at facilitating terms. Money not
the object. Rates $100 upwards. SAM MAAS.
FOR SALE—The Guilbeau building, and lot
10, block 680, in Galveston,with three story
slate roof brick building. No. 222 west Strand
PERSONAL*
1 JERSONAL—Parties from the interior will
JL find it to their advantage to leave their size
ou file at L- M.WATERS'S, 129 Tremont st.
F
FOK SALE.
OR SALE-
in the CITY LOTS of Hats,
WITH latest IMPROVEMENTS.
L. M. WATERS,
sel It* 129 Tremont.
BALDWIN has just received the latest
styles S'LK HATS. Call and see them.
Tremont street, under Opera House. au25 tf
SAFES FOR SALE-$160 Fire-Proof Mer
chants Safe, new combination lock, for $75
—$125 for $65. New and second-nand Fire
ind Burglar-proof Safes for banks, insurance
offices and jewelers half price. Safes sold on
installments. G. A. Vinton & Co., Galveston.
FOR RENT.
FOR RFNT— A comfortable cottage, south-
west corner Victoria av. and 20th. For fur-
ther particulars apply on premises. au31 3t*
P,X>R RENT — STORE AND DWELLING
combined, on Center, bet. P. O. & Church.
au29tf THOS. GOGGAN & BRO.
DWELLING HOUSE, on Church street, op-
posite Cathedral ~
Sept.
Possession given 1st
Apply to Thos. Goggan & Bro. au29tf
AND DWELLING
combined, N. W. cor. Bath av. and Church.
au29tf THOS. GOGGAN & BRO.
FOR RENT —STORE
«
TO KENT—TWO HOUSES (ONE NEW TWO-
story) N. W. corner Broadway and Tenth.
Apply to Marsan, Central Wharf au24 tf
TttEMONT HOTEL STORES TO BENT
reasonable rrices.
my6 tf BURNETT &
ATRICK. Strand.
HELP WASTED.
TT7ANTED—A. GOOD WHITE SEhTANT
\\ at comer of Mt'cbanic and 15th strec-s.
sel it DAVID WAKELEF.
WANTED-SIX FIRST-CLASS COOPERS,
Apply to Galveston Cooperage wortf,
corner Mechanic and32d streets
SITUATIONS WANTED.
SITUATION WANTED as Salesman, Packer
or Porter; middle-aged man, steady habits;
. . __ nnI,-ii^trtn nr alca.
twenty y-ars experience,
where. O, News office.
Galveston or else-
au31 3t*
A VIRGINIA LADY, of several years ex-
perience, desires a situation to teach the
English branches, Latin and French, either in
Gaiveston or an interior town. Address Box
H7, Galveston. au26
MISCELLANEOUS WANTS.
\\T ANTED—The shape of every m^n's head
▼ v in the State to keep on file
wilt L. M. WATER®. i29 Tremont .-t
i ««ehtb w awteu to sell the Marvelous
xV Pen; writes without ink for several
months. Good profits. Send 8c. postage, for
sample, to C. F. BumpePs book store, Austin.
WfANTE L*—To rent a house with four
▼ V rooms. Address, stating location and
price. P. O. Box 295. au30
MISCELLANEOUS.
BROUSSABD FURNI8HES SIX (6) GOOD
SHlRi'o FOR $8 50.
Guaranteed to fit.
au21tuthsa lm
MORRIS' SHIR l 8—GOOD COTTON. LIN-
en Bosom, Shield Open Back; 6 for $6.
Made to order on 6 hou t s notice, r or full par-
ticulars see 'k SHIRT " advertisement in an-
othe r column. au30 tf
BALDWIN has just received very latest
styles, all colors, 8TIFF HATS. Tremont
street, under Opera House. au25 tf
" EKP'S SHIETS MADE FROM WAM-
8UTTA muslin and fine linen. Six for
$9 00 only at Barton's, 174 Tremont st. au23*
HAKDW ARE/WOODEN WAKE, TINWARE,
Ammunition, Fishing Tackle. All kinds
novelties. For sale by JOS. LABADIE.
COTTON BRANDS AND FRUIT BRANDS
at reduced prices.
jy24 3m
FRED. A. SMITH,
114 Tremont st.
OIGNsj—Conspicuously the finest and the
O cheapest, at JOHN M. DOHERTY'S
jyl5 3m* 20th st., opposite the Postoffice.
ICE-COLD SODA AND MEAD and sirup*
from the Sovereign fountain, at 5c. a glass.
GUS McKF.RNON. opposite the new hotel.
NOTICES, ETC.
& f A AAA TO LOAN ON GOOD SECURI-
3?1U^UUU TY. Address to drawer 16,
Galveston Postoffice.
sel tf
PARTIES DEalRING TO RENT PEWS IN
r
the Temple of the Congregation B'nai Is-
>1 for the en
application to
rael for the ensuing holidays, will please make
I LOVENBERG, Sec y.
jgALDWIN^ has _just reoeiyed very latest
styles SOFT FUR HATS,
them, under the Opera House.
Call and see
au25 tf
Buildeks and owners of
Buildings will find it to their advantage
to call on JACOB F. WEITZEL for estimates
on Tin and Galvanized Iron Cornice Work.
Good work guaranteed. See him before you
eive out your work. Seeling's Brick Build-
ing, 20th st., between Market and Mechanic
ptreeta. au21 tf
HOOH18AND BOARD.
fjpREMONT RESTAURANT, 177 TREMONT
street, bet. Market and Postoffice streets.
First-class Board, $25 per month, or 21 Meal
Tickets for $6. au!2 lm
T7URNISHEDBOOMS, South and East; rates
Xs from $5 to $20 per month. Mrs. V. A
WESTLAKE, corner Church and 23d street*
—MANUFACTURERS OF—
COTTON AND WOOLEN GOODS,
BOOTS AND SHOES,
All Kinds Furniture, Mattresses, Chairs, Wagons, Etc.
JOHN C. HALL & CO.
FIRE INSURANCE AGENCY,
Moody & Jemison's Building,
Galveston, Texas.
Solicit Insurance from all parts of the State on Merchan-
dise, Store-Houses, Dwellings, Cotton Gins, etc.
Strict and Prompt Attention to Rusfness our Rule^
JONES & VINEYARD,
COMMISSION MERGHANTS
FOR the
Sale of Live Stock.
STOCK YARDS, GALVESTON.
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Auction Sales.
CHOICE APPLES AT AUCTION.
We will sell this day,
at 9fc$ o'clock a. m., at our salesrooms,
Strand—
50 bbls. CHOICE APPLES, various brands.
Will be sold by the single barrel. Remember
the time, 9^ o'clock.
PARK, LYNCH & CO.,
sel Auctioneers.
AUCTION SALE
of
DAMAGED GOODS.
We will sbll this day,
1st instant, at 11K o'clock, at our sales-
rooms, Strand, for account of whom it may
concern—
10 cases of assorted Dry Goods, Ribbons, Ho-
siery, Handkerchiefs, Dolls and other
Merchandise.
PARK, LYNCH A CO.
sel it Auctioneers.
E. A. BLAKELY,
_A_ u.ct ioneer,
153 TREMONT STREET,
opposite the opera house.
Regular day sales mon-
DAYS, Wednesdays and Fridays, com-
mencing at 10 o'clock a.m.; and night sales
eyery night, commencing 7.30 o'clock.
We are ia constant receipt of Gold and Silver
Watches. Jewelry, Diamonds, Paintings, Oil
Cromos, Silverware of every description. Cut-
lery, Pistols, Guns, Glassware, Crockery,
Lamps. Furniture In variety. Mattresses, etc.
Also Clothing, Dry Goods, Hosery, Handker-
chiefs. Notions, etc , etc. Also on hand and
for sale at low figures several Piancs, and one
°^eTsollcit consignments of every class of
goods for sale at auction or private sale.
Outside sales of Household Furniture, Real
Estate, etc., promptly attended to. sel It
Auction Sale of Household and Of-
fice Furniture.
We will sell on satur-
day, September 1st, at 10 o'clock, at our
salesrooms, Strand—
An assortment of
HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE in good REPAIR,
consisting in part of
2 Walnut Wardrobes, Marble-top Bureau, 2
Walnut tester Bedsteads, 2 French Bed-
steads. Hair-cloth 8ofa, Hair-cloth Re-
cling Lounge, Marble-top Table,
WTalnut Chairs, Reclining Chair
and other household articles.
also:
1 Fine Walnut Sitting Desk. 1 Standing Desk,
1 pair Platform Scales.
PARK, LYNCH & CO.,
ftU:312t Auctioneers.
Miscellaneous.
NEW ORLEANS
Cotton Send Association
Union Oil Co A. A. Maginnis's Sons.
r»KsrnNTCiTY,QH,fi&.-,<fiWW.!'i
HIGHEST MARKET RATES PAID FOR
GOOD SOUND COTTON SEED
Sacks and Twine furnished to responsible
partit.es. H. SHEPARD,
Purchasing Agent for Texas.
Texas Branch Office: Houston.
G. C. STREET,
sel eodAWlm Manager.
R. A. CHADWICK,
716 CONGBESS AVENUE,
Avenue Hotel Building:,
Austin, Texas.
State, County, City and miscellaneous Se-
curities, Land Certificates, Gold, Silver and
Exchange Bought and Sold. Loans Nego-
tiated, Paper Discounted and Collections
made.
Rsfkrekcks : The Bankers of Austin and
Brenham; Houston Savings Bank .Houston;
Ball, Hutchings & Co., Galveston; Hon. Geo.
Clark, Waco; City Bank, of Dallas; 8. M.
Swenson, Son & Co., New York. sel It
MI8S GARLAND. A8SI8TED BY MRS
Meek and Miss Theresa Muller. will open
a PUBLIC SCHOOL on 19th street, between
Market and Mechanic, for boys and girls, on
Monday, September 3d. A class for girls over
fourteen years will be taught from half-past
two to four. Tuition, $3 50. German and
Spanish at moderate rates. sel 2t
w. f. stewart.
c. B. MOORS. BY. BSISSKEB.
w. F. STEWART A CO.,
Dulna 1B
M fs cellancons.
OYER 180,020 LBS. COKN fcSROVNl)
INTO MEAL AND FEED
during the past w months at the
GALVESTON
STEAM MILLS,
Cor. MARKET & 1 itll STS.
White Meal for Table Use, SI l«*
bushel, g'.* per 100, f3 50 per bb',.
Pearl Grits. $3 per 100.
Yellow Meal, for Restanrant*. Ho
telg, Ete., need for frjin? oysters
82 50 per 100.
Craeked Corn, Unbolted Meal, and
Mixed Feed (oats aii* corn gronid)
the Best Feed for Horses, Co*»,
Etc., at SI 50 per 100.
All Fresh, Ground Twice aWcel.
No Less Quantity than 25 lbs. at t^
Above Prices.
All Goods Delivered Free
JOH> H1BBERT,
Proprietor.
; REMOVAL
we have removed from
corner Strand and Center streets to
lliii STRAND,
opposite the Moody and Jemison building.
Our Stock is large, and is offered at
AXTF*BELLiT]!I PRICES.
We solic * l*16 patronage and orders of city
and count 7 merchants, and the public gen-
erally. PIERCE A TERRY.
]m Stationers and Printers.
PETER H. ERHARD,
SUCCESSOR TO
J. FREDEKlCUt- * ERHARD,
GEN'L COMMISSION MERCiiVifr
FOR THE SALE OF
COTTON, WOOL, HIDES, Etc.
Agent for the North German Lloyds lines of
steamers. _ „ . ..
From Bremen to New From Bremen to >ew
York. Orleans, via South-
No. 131 E. STRAND, GALVESTON, TEXAS.
BootsShoes
AT
COST!
AT
Flatto&Bros
Under the Opera House.
Owing to the fact that we are about to re
ceive soon our Fall 8tock, and having many
Summer Goods in store, we will sell for the
NEXT THIRTY DAYS ONLY,
Our entire stock of
BOOTS and SHOES
AT AND BELOW COsT.
Great bargains in Gentlemen's custom made
work, and all goods pertaining thereto.
Ladies', Misses', Children's and Infant'6 at
greatly reduced prices. aul8 lm 4p
SklBglM, Lathe, Sash, Doors.
Blinds, Etc. '
Bills sawed to order at short notioe anc
lowest rates. Office cor. 29th and Mechani-
sts., GALVESTON, TEXAS. se612mlp
Robt. V. Davidson. Geo. W. Fulton, Jr.
DAVIDSON & FULTON,
Attorneys
AND
Counselors - at - Law,
TUoody and Jemison Building,
GALVESTON, TEXAS.
MOODY & JEMISON,
Commission Merchants,
AND
BANKEESjICOTTOB FACTOR?.
O* —1 U*M 128 strand,
|GA
128 Pearl St
dw KS!W YORK.
3AI.VKSTON. TRXAP
Posnainsky, the Tailor
Just received a large
stock of the best fall goods and latest pat-
terns from New York, which I will make up
in the latest styles and lowest rates. Ky cus-
tomers and public generally are invited to call
and see for themselves. To conform to Mr
times nave made a reduction on all erderspf
95 per cent. G. POSNAINSKY, 17* Tremont,*i.
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